As a leading experience in combating diseases worldwide, an image of the plague surveillance teams of the Pasteur Institute of Iran in 1962 has been installed in front of the WHO headquarters in Geneva
An image of the plague surveillance teams of the Pasteur Institute of Iran has been installed on one of the 12 inscriptions in front of the main entrance of the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, as a leading experience in combating diseases worldwide.
The caption under this image, which features Dr. Marcel Baltazar, Dr. Mansour Shamsa, and Dr. Younes Karimi, reads:
“Traps are placed outside rodent holes near the village of Agh Bolag Morshed (Hamedan Province) in the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the response to a plague outbreak in 1962”
